₦airaland Forum

Leaders of Thought comprising Ọbas, Chiefs, policy shapers, politicians, technocrats, intelligentsia, security-related groups, and socio-cultural groups, have decided that the Yoruba Nation would no longer play a second fiddle in the arrangement of Nigeria which has failed them.

The large gathering of the leaders and Youths in Pan Yoruba group held a rally at Mapo Hall in Ibadan regarded as the political nerve centre of the entire South Western Nigeria, where it was decided that the system now being operated in Nigeria can no longer sustain the country, and as such, have decided to pull out and stand alone as a Nation.

The groups at the end of the meeting issued a communique singed by, Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo which centered on the Greater and Common Good of the Yorùbá nation.

They stated in the ten point agenda that:

1) The Yorùbá are resolute in their determination not to stand idle and watch our space and land desecrated. Only an arsonist allows a fire to burn and destroy. We will not permit strangers to abuse our hospitality and desecrate our hallowed land and our sacred spaces. Indeed, we invoke the ancient maledictions reserved for such malefactors. Our forests need no permission to swallow them.

2) The Yorùbá, are confronted by the realization that we are living in a time of bad metaphors. A time when dogs do not hearken unto the whistle of the hunter and the rivers which have forgotten their sources, still continue to flow. The world is turned inside out and the socio-political fabric of Nigeria is ripped into shreds. Today in Buhari’s Nigeria, the ship of state has veered dangerously off course, and heads almost irreversibly towards jagged rocks of destruction. Insecurity has reached such an abyss that hundreds of people are kidnapped in broad daylight with impunity.

3) The Yorùbá are convinced that Nigeria is on the verge of a catastrophic calamity, of potentially greater magnitude than either the internecine conflict of 1967 to 1970 or the brazen disenfranchisement of 1993! Nigeria as we know it, has embarked on uncharted seas, with nihilists as crewmen. We are a country divided along distrusting ethnic lines, exhausted by its failures, cynical about its own future, authoritarian by reflex and controlled as a personality cult by a section of the country. The relentless pursuit of power by a group of self servers, the ruthless cabal that respects neither Equity nor Equality, with an entrenched sense of entitlement, has taken away any sense of belonging to this union, by the Yorùbá. When injustice becomes law, resistance will be a duty!

4) The Yorùbá announce their exhaustion with this Government’s obsession with Lies and Denials of truths and facts. Farmers-Herders clashes are denied despite photographic evidence of massacres and eye-witness reports of mayhem. Terrorists roam the land in the garb of herdsmen, killing, raping, kidnapping and maiming, with little or no reaction from constituted authority. A high ranking Government official declares that bandits are not criminals.

5) The Yorùbá are perplexed by the fact that the Nigerian state is bombing the Eastern Security Network (ESN). Yet, the same Government is embracing and romancing terrorists. It is now safe to say this is a Government that panders to terrorists, protects terrorists, pays ransoms to terrorists, and prevaricates Terrorism, with absolutely no sanction by the Northern dominated security apparatus of Nigeria. How exactly can such a Government continue to seek the support of the Yorùbá going forward!?!

6) The Yorùbá hereby make known their opposition to Sheikh Gumi’s interaction with these dreaded terrorists. A video circulating on social media that shows the Sheikh trying to divide the Nigerian Army along religious lines is an abominable wake-up call. The Sheikh is guilty of incitement, when he claims that it is Christian soldiers who attack bandits to sow religious tension. To encourage bandits to be selective in their reprisal attacks and avoid women and children is tantamount to aiding and abetting Terrorism and sabotage. The Sheikh has forgotten that thousands of Christian soldiers have lost their lives battling Boko Haram and other Terrorists. The Nigerian Military is one of the few institutions that have resisted division along religious lines. By condoning Sheikh Gumi’s felonious pronouncements, the Government is allowing him to fan the embers of crisis, while hiding under the cloak of mediation.

7) The Yorùbá are convinced that the North is already at war with itself. Rather than face that situation squarely, the Northern-controlled Federal Government keeps trying to divert attention by teasing out conflicts in some areas and exporting crisis to other locations. The Yorùbá call it, “da bi mo se da”. It will not work. The Yorùbá will not swallow the bait and allow our hard-won inheritance to be consumed in the consequent conflagration.

Cognizant of the foregoing, It has become imperative that the territory that was known as Western Region under the 1963 Constitution, along with other peoples having affinities with the Yoruba Nation in Edo, Delta, Kogi and Kwara be organised in pursuit of our political identity and socio-economic welfare of all. Notwithstanding any politically correct labels, our quest is to think through and fashion out the pathway for the progress of our peoples at the homeland and across the world.

The Yorùbá hereby resolve as follows:

i) The Yorùbá have decided to embark on a venture of massive resistance to the issue of insecurity. Àmòtékún and other support systems, fully incorporating both Traditional and Modern security measures and systems have been integrated to form the South West Security and Stakeholders Group (SWSSG) which is presented to the Yorùbá and the world today. The role of SWSSG is the protection of our patrimony, our physical and human assets, our forests and our intangible legacies which have been inviolate and inviolable for over a millennium.

ii) The forests of the Yorùbá are sacred, untouchable, and out-of-bounds to terrorists. May the curses of all our forefathers hold to account all who attempt to cede even one inch of our forests to any ranch or settlement for the use of foreigners, despoilers, ruiners, ravagers and desecraters of our forests. Our forests house our spirituality, our Essence. Our Egungun, our Oro, our spirit, our food security, our culture, our Being!

iii) The Yorùbá distance themselves from the oft-repeated untruth that “Nigeria’s unity is non-negotiable”. This is nothing but a falsehood. Be it known, now and ever — “The unity of Nigeria is highly negotiable!” If we cannot be happy together, then let us find peace and joy, apart. Nigeria can only remain Nigeria if all parties agree to deal equitably with each other.

iv) The Yorùbá are resolute in their fierce determination to pursue vigorously our own chosen destiny to be FREE men and women, and never to be 2nd class citizens in our own land and space.

nice to hear, long overdue but are we ready for the struggle and sacrifices to achieve it.

afroedo:
nice to hear

Nice to hear what


Refugees in Benin rejecting second class fiddle in our "great" Nation. Such insolence!



Whatever one sow would be his harvest. You can't sow maize and expect to reap plasma TV.

We the Yorubas are not going anywhere. one Nigeria till death do us apart.
cc ngadawo

I laugh in Swahili.

Fahdiga:
We the Yorubas are not going anywhere. one Nigeria till death do us apart.
cc ngadawo

Hello from Benin IDP camp.

afroedo:
nice to hear, long overdue but are we ready for the struggle and sacrifices to achieve it.

Stop chest beating, egbon.

Can't play second fiddle

Let's ask ourselves this question if Biafra were given the chance to be on their own as of that time they fought Biafra war where do you think they would have been in level with other Africa countries including Nigeria. Some people can be brilliant in life why others are smarter.

If the Yorubas are second fiddle then what are the Igbos and other minorities(not a question don’t quote)... Secession will do a lot of Good

Where are the Yoruba's that voted buhari
I know it wasn't all of them that was myopic.

Imagine Yoruba currently in a war with Fulani herdsmen. The same terrorist herdsmen we warned them against in 2015 and 2019

If the Yoruba's are saying that they've been playing second fiddle, then what have Igbo's been playing??

That’s good . How can 50 million people play second fiddle?
But wait o, is this about 2023 elections or are you genuinely fed up?

Kriss216:
Nice to hear what


Refugees in Benin rejecting second class fiddle in our "great" Nation. Such insolence!



Whatever one sow would be his harvest. You can't sow maize and expect to reap plasma TV.

Waoooh wait a melodious tone you got for yourself. This is your award.

lonecatt:
Where are the Yoruba's that voted buhari
I know it wasn't all of them that was myopic.

Imagine Yoruba currently in a war with Fulani herdsmen. The same terrorist herdsmen we warned them against in 2015 and 2019

Tell me Igbo didn't vote for Buhari at all or you are on hibernation

Next Level till 2023.....
Nigeria is not Breaking up anytime soon...

Kriss216:
Nice to hear what


Refugees in Benin rejecting second class fiddle in our "great" Nation. Such insolence!



Whatever one sow would be his harvest. You can't sow maize and expect to reap plasma TV.

Pigidioott amaka

Move on from civil war and 2015 election already!

ObiOfOnistha:
Tell me Igbo didn't vote for Buhari at all or you are on hibernation

Igbo no carry am for head like Yoruba na ,even the cattle pushing president whom you voted for called Igbo 5%

iPhone 12 has UK used already? Why are these UK people like this?